Such is the place where, about the middle of September, if you have been sojourning through the very quiet vacation in one of the almost deserted hotels of New-Haven, you will begin to be conscious of an awakening from the six weeks' torpor, (the _long_ vacation of hurried Americans who must study forty weeks of the year.) Along the extended row of brick you will begin to discern aproned 'sweeps' clearing the month and a half's accumulated rubbish from the walks, beating carpets on the grass-plots, re-lining with new fire-brick the sheet-iron cylinder-stoves, more famous for their eminent Professor improver (may his shadow never be less!) than for their heating qualities, or furbishing old furniture purchased at incredibly low prices, of the last class, to make good as new for the Freshmen, periphrastically known as 'the young gentlemen who have lately entered college.' It may be, too, that your practiced eye will detect one of these fearful youths, who, coming from a thousand miles in the interior--from the prairies of the West or the bayous of the South--has arrived before his time, and now, blushing unseen, is reconnoitering the intellectual fortress which he hopes soon to storm with 'small Latin and less Greek,' or, perchance, remembering with sad face the distance of his old home and the strangeness of the new. A few days more, and hackmen drive down Chapel street hopefully, and return with trunks and carpet-bags outside and diversified specimens of student-humanity within--a Freshman, in spite of his efforts, showing that his as yet undeveloped character is '_summa integritate et innocentia_;' a Sophomore, somewhat flashy and bad-hatted, a _hard_ student in the worse sense, with much of the '_fortiter in re_' in his bearing; a Junior, exhibiting the antithetical '_suaviter in modo_;' a Senior, whose '_otium cum dignitate_' at once distinguishes him from the vulgar herd of common mortals. Then succeed hearty greetings of meeting friends, great purchase of text-books, and much changing of rooms; students being migratory by nature, and stimulated thereto by the prospect of choice of better rooms conceded to advanced academical standing. In which state of things the various employes of college, including the trusty colored Aquarius, facetiously denominated Professor _Paley_, under the excitement of numerous quarters, greatly multiply their efforts. But the chief interest of the opening year is clustered around the class about to unite its destinies with the college-world. A new century of students-- 'The igneous men of Georgia, The ligneous men of Maine,'